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Reframe Assumptions: Myths and Facts Mental Retardation

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Volume 8 Issue 3 March, 2018

❌ Medicines can cure Mental retardation (MR)

✅ Medicines can only intervene behavioral manifestation of MR and not cure

❌ Cognition and Intelligence signify or mean the same

✅ Both are different and can’t be used interchangeably

❌ IQ means chronological age/mental age (CA/MA100)  It is MA/CA100

✅ Mental Retardation can’t live a normal life

❌ Not really, they could live a normal life especially who have near to normal IQ

✅ Intelligence determines creativity in individuals

There no significant positive correlation between the two

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